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On February, 9th 2018 Sacramento CA native, trumpeter, composer, educator and arranger Joe Mazzaferro
released his debut CD In Terms Of... on his own Joe Mazz Music label with special guest Jeff Clayton and featuring Donald Brown and Carl Allen!
Joe Mazzaferro was raised in a musical household. As Joe states both of my parents ...read more

Queens New York born and Orangeburg, South Carolina raised multi-reed instrumentalist,
composer and band leader Will Boyd makes a sizzling debut with the Will Boyd Music CD release of Live At The Red Piano Lounge recorded at
his adopted hometown of Knoxville Tennessee's premier jazzroom and scheduled for a February 2018 release!
It was as a ...read more

AKIRA TANA didn’t have to go looking for Brazilian music as a young musician. An elite jazz drummer since the mid-1970s, he’s been immersed in the verdant hothouse of Brazil’s surging rhythms and sensuous melodies his entire career. His new album JAZZaNOVA, which is slated for release by Vega on March 1, 2018, reflects an abiding ...read more

Early on, the very engaged crowd at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood knew we were in for a treat. Perhaps it was enough that drummer Simon Phillips and his quartet Protocol were ready to take the ...

Vijay Iyer told a San Francisco audience at Herbst Theater that it is amazingly difficult to tour in the United States, by way of explaining why he did not perform in his former hometown more often. But, ...

Louis Marks CEO at Ropeadope Records signs singer/songwriter/spoken word artist Tony Adamo. Tony Adamo's music producer Mike Clark has
also been
signed to Ropeadope Records. Mike Clark is of Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters fame. Tony Adamo's first CD release on Ropeadope will be on October
19th, 2018.
Jazz and the spoken word have always had a symbiotic relationship. Jack ...read more

Here’s To Life is the newest CD by AS IS, featuring jazz guitarist ALAN SCHULMAN and jazz vocalist STACEY SCHULMAN. The CD is
an eclectic mix of tunes
that showcases Stacey’s versatile vocal stylings and Alan’s soulful acoustic and electric jazz guitar playing.
Their debut CD, A Love Like Ours, was a duo project that hit #1 on the ...read more

blue(s) includes three originals plus renditions of classics by Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Oliver Nelson, Joni Mitchell and Miles Davis.
Nine-track opus features vocalizations and accompaniment from guitarist Ron Satterfield.
Record release show June 25 at Museum of Making Music (MoMM) in Carlsbad, CA.
On February 25th 2018 virtuoso flutist, composer/arranger, and educator, Lori Bell will perform a CD ...read more

I was first exposed to jazz at the age of seven. I used to listen to Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery all the time. My late dad was a violinist and my sister was a music teacher so there was always (jazz) music playing in our home

I was first exposed to jazz at the age of seven. I used to listen to Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery all the time. My late dad was a violinist and my sister was a music teacher so there was always (jazz) music playing in our home. I later went to study Jazz guitar at various institutions internationally. My favourite was Trinity College of Music in London. I met a few life long friends there.
Jazz is a way of life and I would certainly not change it for anything or anyone. Music is Happiness So, Let it Play... Play... Play.